Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awfully hard to feel sorry for a man who disembowels little girls. In fact, Director Bertrand Tavernier's new film, The Judge and The Assassin, unwittingly reveals just how impossible this feat of emotional empathy is. The horror of the crime repells us; we are haunted by the image of our own face screaming in the last minutes of life. A Theodore Bundy-style murder dehumanizes the victim, turning a person into an object. Horrified yet fascinated, we devour the newspaper clippings; each gruesome detail imprints itself on our memory. We become transfixed by the terrifyingly personal nature of random...
...subject attempted would present problems to the most experienced and brilliant of film makers. The Judge and the Assassin traces the last years of one Joseph Bouvier, (Michel Galabru) a dismissed French sergeant turned hobo...
McMullen himself claims to know - in fact, to have brought into the U.S. last year, under a false passport - the I.R.A. hit man who has now been as signed to kill him. He describes the putative assassin as fortyish and bland-looking, the kind of lad who would lure his victim to a bar, buy him a drink, then splinter his skull and walk...
...Cartoon History of United States Foreign Policy, 1776-1976 by the editors of the Foreign Policy Association (Morrow; $4.95). Including Low's classic of Hitler and Stalin bowing to each other: "The scum of the earth, I believe"; "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume...
...frequently superimposed on the film's images-but those eyes tell us nothing. It is not Sheen's fault; no one has written him a role. He is neither the initially innocent traveler of Conrad's fiction (where the character was called Marlow) nor a hardened assassin...